Uhhh, HPV is the cause of huge numbers of deaths each year. A quick google reveals that cervical cancer rates are 2.3 per 100,000 women per year, aka 3500 deaths a year in the US alone. HPV is the root cause of over 90% of those cancers.

The reason that it's reasonable for the government to mandate what shots your child gets is because your choice does not affect only your child. It affects every child out there that for some reason can not be vaccinated.

Dualling and duelling are different things. Dualling is making something have a dual (a pair). Duelling is shooting someone at dawn.

That's been flat out denied multiple times. The TV show creators have repeatedly stated that part of the contract terms for doing the show are that he produces a series a year, and that they know how it ends already.

Basically, whether he's dead or not, and whether the books are written or not, you'll know the end in 3 years.

What makes you think that ATMs in europe aren't embedded in a small concrete building?

Note - that small concrete building usually has a door in the back of it so that a guy can come along, open it, and then fill up the ATM with cash. That again, is the weak point that the explosion will blow out.

No, no it's not. Europe too had legacy finance systems. We overhauled them - making us first adopters. The difference is not that you were first adopters (you weren't), it's that we actually spent some money to improve things.

Yep, I've never met a really good programmer who didn't use every tool he could exploit to find his bugs. Every one of them that I ever met had a strong leaning towards strongly typed languages, because they could exploit the type checker to find their bugs. They had a strong leaning towards testing, because they could exploit it to find their bugs. They had a strong leaning towards running profiling tools for memory, leaks, performance etc because they could exploit them to show were their code was really bad.

As far as I'm concerned - lesson 1 is to use every tool you possibly can to prop yourself up - get the computer to make you into a good programmer.

Hint - if you think that you're the best coder in the world, and that everyone around you is only outputting a bunch of shitty buggy crap, it's probably time for you to do a bunch of introspection.

It's a well known phenomenon that experts will tend to play down how good they are (because they realise what they don't know), while non-experts will tend to play up how good they are. The fact that you're claiming to be god's gift to man kind, and that everyone else seems to be doing something different is a good indication that you may well be in the latter category.

Don't get me wrong - you may actually be god's gift to man kind, and/or you may be amongst a bunch of incompetent monkeys, but that's not the likely scenario.

Increasing the minimum wage rather than the EITC has the benefit that more money is paid in taxes, not less. The result, not only are you able to help those who do have a minimum wage job (who by the way, typically are poor, and it's ridiculous to assert otherwise), but you're also able to help those who have found themselves out of work. That, and rebuild the completely fucked highways, pay firemen, stop the sewers leaking, ...

Sunnyvale. It's not uncommon here at all.

The thing is, suppose your cost of living is indeed half that of SV. Lets assume for you, the cost of living is 40k a year - you are able to save or enjoy 30k a year. Lets assume it's 80k a year in SV. That guy earning 140k a year is still saving 60k a year, and will retire to the mid west much better off.

Also, the other thing that this isn't taking into account is the rate at which you get given shares in companies. Someone working for one of the big SV tech companies, and earning $140k a year is likely to be being given more than $100k in stock a year if they're even half competent. Sure, it vests over time, but after a few years, that's literally just $100k coming in from vesting every single year.

Just for reference - SV is expensive, but not that expensive. I pay less than $3k a month for a nice 3 bed house there. It's only the idiots who want to live in the city that end up paying $4k a month for a 1 bed apartment.

Uhhh yeh, and you don't think a couple earning $250,000 can afford a tax lawyer too? Yeh right. Get off your high horse.

Yes, but also no. In general, even in areas with a high cost of living, you end up better off. No matter where you live, you typically end up spending somewhere around 30-40% of your income on housing, 20-30% on living, and 30-40% as disposable income of one form or another (savings, having fun, etc). 30-40% of a silicon valley wage is still substantially more than 30-40% of a mid-west wage, that means you gain substantially more savings by working there, and when you retire, and move to somewhere like the mid west, you are substantially better off.

Actually, in terms of rev range, F1 engines and street engines aren't too dissimilar. F1 engines can rev to 15000rpm, but they're designed not to, because the fuel flow is not allowed to increase above 10500rpm. Because of that, they're designed to run at between 8000 and 12000rpm most of the time. Modern road car small turbos tend to rev up to 8000rpm. They're a little separate, but not as much as the 15000rpm rev limit on an F1 engine makes it seem.

The thing that differs on the F1 engine is actually the compression ratio they're expected to endure, and the size and speed of the turbo charger. The turbos carry so much energy that they have to have ballistic shields installed around them in case one fails. That of course is why the engine then ends up so quiet - all the exhaust energy goes into spinning a massive turbo up to 150,000rpm.